He paid no attention to him...
He paid no attention to him, saying: “O Amr, if I was killed, then I would be a man whose people deserted him and whose death came. Why did you not show that when you swerved from fighting (against us)? We summoned you to fight against us while you resorted to the north…as if you were a black bondmaid and a led ewe! You did not push the hand of a toucher!” Amr bin al-‘Aas burnt with grief.
He could not say anything except that he threatened him, saying: “By Allah, you have fallen in the canine teeth of the one who is like a lion with mane toward his equals! I think that you will not escape from the hands of the Commander of the faithful!” As for Hashim, he paid no attention to…
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